Blockchains

Pharos Network, a Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for real-world financial applications, today announced a strategic partnership with KUN, a licensed enterprise digital payments specialist operating across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.

NEAR's on-chain governance body, House of Stake, passed proposal HSP-027 to eliminate the protocol's developer gas rebate, a change that will send all network gas fees to be burned rather than partly rebated to smart-contract owners. NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin confirmed the outcome Monday,…

Monolythium Foundation today introduced the public testnet for Monolythium, a rebuilt Layer 1 blockchain designed as settlement infrastructure for autonomous agents, post-quantum accounts, native markets, and operator-cluster infrastructure.

Tokenized stocks on Robinhood's three-week-old chain averaged $29.7 million in daily DEX volume over the past week, more than Solana's xStocks and Backpack venues combined, with memecoin pairs supplying the push.

The liquid staking protocol is migrating more than 8 million staked ETH onto a module that requires node operators to post bonds, a shift expected to cut Ethereum's validator count by about a third.

Most exchanges and partners have signaled readiness for the hard fork, though a few are still reviewing details and the upgrade has not yet activated.

The company behind the MOVE token filed a voluntary petition in Delaware listing up to $10 million in liabilities, capping a year of governance disputes, a market-making scandal and a failed strategic pivot.

The Telegram founder is putting private-key custody inside the core app this summer, a distribution reach no self-custody wallet has attempted.

The privacy Layer 2 says its latest release halves proving time and transaction costs versus V4, with the Nyx wallet as its first live app.

The Strategy chairman says the anti-spam soft fork would set a censorship precedent worse than the data problem it targets, weeks before an August signaling window.